When I was growing up a kid in my school died in a silo of wheat. The teachers described it as being like drowning, and the idea of drowning in things that weren't water stuck with me. When I was trying to come up with a name, I kept coming back to ideas involving sound waves and surfing. And I was studying various rhetorical devices in English A-level to do with rhyme and memory. SoundSurfer was the working title, and I'm so glad I came up with something better. The fact it was almost diss, to cuss, etc, made it all the better.

However, I feel like I really need to do something else. At least for a while. Been spending half a day a week investigating into setting up a new label/management company (spent a lot of time looking into running a fan-funded record label, which would be more like a record club...).

The editorial side of DiS needs the eager 21-25 year old me. The site itself needs a lot of tech investment to evolve. I've been considering a few options lately. Turned down a few offers to sell the site since the Sky deal. Been down a lot of dead-ends.

It's pretty hard to even begin to work out how much it's all gonna cost. Spent about £12k so far, and there's still a fair bit to do. DiS' investor originally got half the company for £20k (he's since put in a bit more to keep things going, and lost a fair bit on the DiS label...)

There are far more nice people that people would think. Toby from Rockfeedback/Transgressive is one of the smiliest. Korda Marshall from Infectious who signed Muse, Alt-J, Ash, etc is one of the cheeriest and most optimistic.

Mark Bowen from Wichita probably fits the bill of the nicest. Although most people who run indie labels end up being far nicer and happier than I ever imagined.

I doubt it. It grew out of frustration that there wasn't something like this. Imagining what it might be was the fun bit.
I'd probably be setting-up something that allows people to get download codes for music with almost any purchase.

So is not being able to afford to fix the website and people whining about it so much that you end up not visiting the board for 8months, unless someone emails you saying there's been a massive falling out.

a) roughly what does DiS cost to run a year, average?
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b) roughly what does/can it bring in in advertising and other revenue?

i mean, i'm not expecting you to go into fine deteail, what you pay certain people for their time or services isn't my business, but generally speaking, so i can assess whether or not it's viable for me to make you an offer.

who have met on this site and ended up bonking the fuck out of each other? Picturing all of the relationships made and destroyed, and all of the cunting wankers that this forum has given a platform to?